Terry Pratchett

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Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Be a disciple of depth in a shallow world.” — Cal Newport

“The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow.” (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage) — Walter Cronkite

“An unkind remark is like a killing frost – no matter how much it warms up, the damage is already done.” — Suzanne Woods Fisher

“Sometimes what is legal isn’t what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference.” — Terry Pratchett

 

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Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” — Terry Pratchett

“All of my biggest wins have come from leveraging strengths instead of fixing weaknesses.” — Timothy Ferriss

“You can’t feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.” — Olav Thon

“His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn’d call ‘rigmarole.'” — Lord Byron

 

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Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.” — Evan Esar

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.” — Terry Pratchett

“I didn’t lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.” — Matt Groening

 

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Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Everybody counts or nobody counts.” — Michael Connelly via the character of detective Harry Bosch

“In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.” — Daniel J. Levitin from the book The Organized Mind

“You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.” — Terry Pratchett

“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.””
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Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“You can’t expect to win unless you know why you lose.” — Benjamin Lipson

“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer, because people online are more interested in criticizing people than helping them.” — Gurwinder Bhogal

“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.” — Michel de Montaigne

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, ‘What about me?’ and you can just hear the universe replying, ‘Well, what about you?'” — Terry Pratchett

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20220116

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.” — Marc Chagall

“The advice of the elders to the young is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.” — Stirling Moss

“We are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.” — Terry Pratchett

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.””
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210814

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A life lived thoroughly justifies its own limitations.” — Jordan Peterson

“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” — Jane (Nightbirde) Marczewski

“My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view.” — Carole King

“Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possibly go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. [ed]” — Terry Pratchett

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210324

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“May the flowers remind us why the rain was necessary.” — Xan Oku

“The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is called picking yourself up off the floor.” — Iain Thomas

“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.” — Terry Pratchett

“They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.” — George Carlin

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Knowing things is magical, if other people don’t know them.” — Terry Pratchett

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?” — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Prenuptial agreement: Paper a lawyer prepares to protect the party of the first part from the party of the second part should they discover the party’s over.” — Rheta G. Johnson

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.” — Dianne Houston

“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.” — Terry Pratchett

“There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.” — J. W. Alexander

“I quit my job at the helium gas factory – I didn’t like being spoken to in that voice.” — Stewart Francis

 

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